1. Bell Work Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Read, Comparing Viewpoints “Should the Union be saved?” on page 328 and answer the following questions:
What does Webster mean when he says, “the strength of America will be in the Valley of the Mississippi”? What would cut the Mississippi River in two?
What does Calhoun accuse the U.S. government of doing?

2. Bell Work Answer Key
The river was valuable for trade, and the valley was prime land for agriculture. The secession of the southern states would divide the river into two separate political entities (north and south.)
Excluding southern influenced in the new territories and destroying the North/South balance in Congress

3. Important Due Dates Sectionalism Project Due Friday, February 23
USA Test Prep (1.1—1.7) Due Friday, February 23
Quiz on new material (3.1, 3.2, and 3.3) Wednesday, February 28—Make sure you review your notes each night!!!

4. US HISTORY USHC 3.1
Standard USHC-3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of how regional and ideological differences led to the Civil War and an understanding of the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on democracy in America. USHC-3.1: Evaluate the relative importance of political events and issues that divided the nation and led to civil war, including the compromises reached to maintain the balance of free and slave states, the abolitionist movement, the Dred Scott case, conflicting views on states’ rights and federal authority, the emergence of the Republican Party, and the formation of the Confederate States of America.

5. Objective/Focus Question
Explain the Missouri Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, the Compromise of 1850, abolitionism, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Evaluate the importance of these events and issues that divided the nation and led to Civil War.

6. Objective/Focus Question
Explain the Missouri Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, the Compromise of 1850, abolitionism, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Evaluate the importance of these events and issues that divided the nation and led to Civil War.
What is the Missouri Compromise? When did it happened? Why did it happen? Etc.

7. Closely read with the focus in mind
“I Can” Statements
I can…
Browse my text set
Preview 1 & 2
Closely read with the focus in mind
Take notes using the 5 W’s and H method, about issues and event that led to the American Civil War, in my own words
Evaluate the importance of these events and issues that divided the nation and led to Civil War.
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY

8. Mini-lesson: 5 W’s and H
WHO was involved (people, states, territories ,etc.)?
WHAT was the issue/event at hand (explain it)?
WHEN did this issues/event take place (general period, specific)?
WHERE in the U.S. did this issue/event concern?
WHY might this have happened?
HOW was it resolved (or was it)?

10. Missouri Compromise of 1820
WHO was involved (people, states, territories ,etc.)?
WHAT was the issue/event at hand (explain it)?
WHEN did this issues/event take place (general period, specific)?
WHERE in the U.S. did this issue/event concern?
HOW was it resolved (or was it)?
- Northern v. Southern states/congressmen, Missouri, Maine.
- The expansion of slavery west into Missouri upset the balance of free/slave states in Congress (11/11).
- 1820
- Missouri Territory; West
- Missouri = slave state, Maine = free state; kept balance of power (12/12). No slavery north of 36º30’ line. Temporarily eased north/south tensions. *

11. Student Work: 5 W’s and H
WHO was involved (people, states, territories ,etc.)?
WHAT was the issue/event at hand (explain it)?
WHEN did this issues/event take place (general period, specific)?
WHERE in the U.S. did this issue/event concern?
WHY might this have happened?
HOW was it resolved (or was it)?
Explain the Missouri Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, the Compromise of 1850, abolitionism, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Evaluate the importance of these events and issues that divided the nation and led to Civil War.

12. The Road to Civil War

14. Missouri Compromise (1820)
36˚30’

15. The South Loses The American System National Bank
Internal Improvements
Protective Tariff
The South Loses

16. NULLIFICATION

17. The South Loses The American System National Bank
Internal Improvements
Protective Tariff
The South Loses

18. The “Great Compromiser”
Clay’s Compromises
1. Missouri (1820)
2. Nullification (1833)
(1850)

19. 1831

20. Texas
Independence
1845 Annexation

21. The Mexican War

22. Wilmot Proviso NEVER PASSED FREE SOIL
"Provided, That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States… neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory..."
NEVER PASSED
David Wilmot
(D – PA)

23. Abolitionism vs. Free Soil
Opposition to SLAVERY
Free Soil
Opposition to the SPREAD of slavery
Geographic Base:
NORTHEAST
NORTHWEST

25. ?

26. The Compromise of 1850 Admit California as a Free State
For the North:
For the South:
The New Mexico Territory:
Slavery in Washington, DC:
Admit California as a Free State
STRONGER Fugitive Slave Law
Popular Sovereignty in Mexican Cession
Texas sells land / Federal Gov. assumes debt
Abolish Slave Trade in Washington, D.C.

27. The Compromise of 1850 was supposed to be the final compromise between the sections…
and it was – just for different reasons than Clay had intended.

28. The 1830s vs. the 1850s 1830s COMPROMISE 1850s CONFLICT
Accept differences in order to keep the peace (e.g., “Gag Rule” on Slavery)
1850s
CONFLICT
Advance sectional and/or moral interest at the expense of sectional harmony

29. De facto Nullification
Personal Liberty Laws
Passed by Wisconsin and other Northern states
Guaranteed jury trials for accused slaves
De facto Nullification

30. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s bestselling anti-slavery novel (1852)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s bestselling anti-slavery novel (1852)
Original Illustrations:

31. Some books make us Re-Think

32. Exit Slip
Explain the Missouri Compromise and evaluate the importance of this event that divided the nation and led to Civil War.

33. Bell Work Thursday, February 22, 2018
Use the following vocabulary to create 1-2 sentences: abolition free soil slavery

34. Bell Work Answer Key
There are differences in the belief systems of abolition and free soil. Abolitionists, who were found prominently in the northeastern part of the United States, wanted to end slavery, while those who supported free soil efforts in the northwestern part of the U. S. simply worked to stop the spread of slavery.

35. US HISTORY USHC 3.1
Standard USHC-3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of how regional and ideological differences led to the Civil War and an understanding of the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on democracy in America. USHC-3.1: Evaluate the relative importance of political events and issues that divided the nation and led to civil war, including the compromises reached to maintain the balance of free and slave states, the abolitionist movement, the Dred Scott case, conflicting views on states’ rights and federal authority, the emergence of the Republican Party, and the formation of the Confederate States of America.

36. Objective/Focus Question
Explain the Kanas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, the Dred Scott Decision, the Raid on Harper’s Ferry, and the Election of Evaluate the importance of these events and issues that divided the nation and led to civil war.

37. Objective/Focus Question
Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, the Dred Scott Decision, the Raid on Harper’s Ferry, and the Election of Evaluate the importance of these events and issues that divided the nation and led to civil war. What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act? Who was involved? Where did it happened and where was affected? When did it happened? Why did is happen? How did it contribute to the divide in the nation that led to civil war?

38. Closely read with the focus in mind
“I Can” Statements
I can…
Preview 1 & 2
Closely read with the focus in mind
Take notes using the 5 W’s and H method, about issues and event that led to the American Civil War, in my own words
Evaluate the importance of these events and issues that divided the nation and led to Civil War.
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY

39. Mini-lesson: 5 W’s and H
WHO was involved (people, states, territories ,etc.)?
WHAT was the issue/event at hand (explain it)?
WHEN did this issues/event take place (general period, specific)?
WHERE in the U.S. did this issue/event concern?
WHY might this have happened?
HOW was it resolved (or was it)?

40. Student Work: 5 W’s and H
WHO was involved (people, states, territories ,etc.)?
WHAT was the issue/event at hand (explain it)?
WHEN did this issues/event take place (general period, specific)?
WHERE in the U.S. did this issue/event concern?
WHY might this have happened?
HOW was it resolved (or was it)?
Explain the Kanas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, the Dred Scott Decision, the Raid on Harper’s Ferry, and the Election of Evaluate the importance of these events and issues that divided the nation and led to civil war.

41. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
POPULAR
SOVEREIGNTY
In Kansas and Nebraska Territories on the issue of slavery
MISSOURI COMPROMISE
ANIMATED MAP:

42. Opposition to the SPREAD of Slavery
FREE SOIL
Opposition to the SPREAD of Slavery

43. Republican Party 1854 Free Soil NOT abolitionist Northern Whigs +
Northern Free Soil Democrats
Free Soil
NOT abolitionist

44. “Bleeding Kansas” 1855-1859 56 Dead
Lawrence, KS, after the “Sack of Lawrence” by proslavery settlers

45. John Brown (Violent Abolitionist)
John Steuart Curry, “Tragic Prelude,”

46. Brooks/Sumner Incident
(1856)
vs.
Rep. Preston Brooks (SC)
Sen. Charles Sumner (MA)

47. SLAP!
READ Sumner’s Speech
READ Brooks’ Defense

48. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) FACTS OF THE CASE:
Dred Scott, a slave, lived with his master in free territory for two years.
Scott claimed this made him a free man.

49. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) THE DECISION: Judicial Activism
People of African descent (incl. Scott) could not be U.S. citizens.
Congress can’t forbid slavery in federal territories (violation of property rights)
Ergo, the Missouri Compromise is Unconstitutional
Judicial Activism

50. “Slave Power” Conspiracy?

51. “House Divided” Speech Abraham Lincoln
1858

52. John Brown’s Raid (1859) OBJECTIVE: TREASON Seize a federal arsenal
Harpers Ferry, VA
TREASON
Tried, Convicted, Executed
Different reactions in North and South

54. Paranoia NORTH: “Slave Power” Conspiracy
The South wants to spread slavery throughout the nation
Mason-Dixon Line
SOUTH: North plans to destroy Southern slavery by igniting slave revolts.

55. 1860 Presidential Election

56. Abraham Lincoln (R-IL) Sixteenth President of the U.S. 1861-1865
Democratic Party split
Election prompted secession of states in the Deep South

57. Secession

58. Exit Slip
1. What effect did events such as the Denmark Vesey plot (think 8th grade history) & Nat Turner’s unsuccessful slave rebellion have on the nation? a.) More slaves were set free to prevent future rebellions. b.) Northerners felt bad for southerners & helped pass laws to maintain slavery. c.) The nation as a whole agreed it would be too dangerous to expand slavery to the territories in the West. d.) Southerners became more distrustful of the North’s role in abolition. 2. Which of the following was NOT a key part of the Supreme Courts’ decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)? a.) The decision declared the Missouri Compromise (1820) unconstitutional. b.) Slaves did not have equal protection under the law. c.) It declared that any slave taken to a free territory/state would be freed. d.) It stated that Congress could not ban the spread of slavery.

59. Exit Slip CORRECT ANSWER: C
1. What effect did events such as the Denmark Vesey plot (think 8th grade history) & Nat Turner’s unsuccessful slave rebellion have on the nation?
a.) More slaves were set free to prevent future rebellions.
b.) Northerners felt bad for southerners & helped pass laws to maintain slavery.
c.) The nation as a whole agreed it would be too dangerous to expand slavery to the territories in the West.
d.) Southerners became more distrustful of the North’s role in abolition.
CORRECT ANSWER: D
2. Which of the following was NOT a key part of the Supreme Courts’ decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)?
a.) The decision declared the Missouri Compromise (1820) unconstitutional.
b.) Slaves did not have equal protection under the law.
c.) It declared that any slave taken to a free territory/state would be freed.
d.) It stated that Congress could not ban the spread of slavery.
CORRECT ANSWER: C